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concern before donald trump even tweeted that.evenpaulryan, thehouse speaker last night, making that case to his colleagues. at 10:30, 11:00 the house majority kevin mccarthy said they're still going to move forward with the rules package, and that was really before that donald trump tweet really got a lot of attention, so as soon as they started to get a lot of attention, members started to realize that we can't be on the wrong page, an opposite page, as the incoming president of our own party, and that's one reason why they agreed to do this behind closed doors. knowing how bad it would look optically and nancy pelosi, wolf, the house democratic leader, also teeing off releasing a statement today sharply criticizing the republicans for backtracking on this. >> we're going to get back to you. i want to discuss this republican reversal on the ethics vote. i'm joined by noah. the executive director for citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. thanks very much for joining us. are you ready to give the president-elect of the united states a lot of the credit for revers

concern before donald trump even tweeted that. even paul ryan, the house speaker last night, making that case to his colleagues. at 10:30, 11:00 the house majority kevin mccarthy said they're still going to move forward with the rules package, and that was really before that donald trump tweet really got a lot of attention, so as soon as they started to get a lot of attention, members started to realize that we can't be on the wrong page, an opposite page, as the incoming president of our own...

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>>> that's going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. big news at this hour ofcourse,paulryan, speakerryan once again. speaker paul ryan. >> he is going to be making public comments. good the so you craig. have a fantastic afternoon. good afternoon, everybody. today's top stories at 2:00, day one for the congress as craig just said with republicans in control breakg this hour, the speaker-elect will address the floor any minute. this comes just hours after his house gop backed off of a vote to gut an ethics office. here he is walking in right now. you are looking at him getting applause from his fellow republicans on the floor of the house. walking toward the front of the house to address this. this will be an unusually interesting discussion because the decision was taken to gut that house ethics office without him being on side. he did not agree with that. and somehow that decision was changed. the ethics office remains untouched. we wonder whether paul ryan is going to touch on that in his comments. but he's got a lot to address, including whether or not they are going to tackle ob

>>> that's going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. big news at this hour of course, paul ryan, speaker ryan once again. speaker paul ryan. >> he is going to be making public comments. good the so you craig. have a fantastic afternoon. good afternoon, everybody. today's top stories at 2:00, day one for the congress as craig just said with republicans in control breakg this hour, the speaker-elect will address the floor any minute. this comes just hours after his house gop backed...

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though for housespeakerpaulryan. headlinesfrom across the political world excoriating his party that stripped powers from an independent ethics watchdog overseeing the house of representatives. the move something the speaker and majority leader kevin mccarthy both told their party it shouldn't do, and then donald trump this morning jumping on twitter at about 10:00, he put his objections out there too. he said, reasonables, he wondered why were they focussed on this as their first item of business? trump tweeting, focus on tax reform, health care, and so many other things of far greater importance. house leadership then taking the item about the ethics oversight watchdog out during a closed door meeting at noon today. speaker ryan, republicans potentially still feeling the aftereffects of their first major pr blunder of this young congress, ryan, giving his first remarks of the new term saying he's ready to move quickly and work for all americans. >> just months ago, our country held a great electoral contest, and at times, it was a little intense. you start to wonder, will the

though for house speaker paul ryan. headlines from across the political world excoriating his party that stripped powers from an independent ethics watchdog overseeing the house of representatives. the move something the speaker and majority leader kevin mccarthy both told their party it shouldn't do, and then donald trump this morning jumping on twitter at about 10:00, he put his objections out there too. he said, reasonables, he wondered why were they focussed on this as their first item of...

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capital. on the opening day of the new congress, nancy pelosiandpaulryanspoketo members shortly after they were reelected to their positions. this is just under 30 minutes. ms. pelosi: it is my honor to join speaker ryan in welcoming all of you to the 115th congress. to new members and your families in this special moment, i offer a special greeting and special congratulations. each of us comes here sustained by the love of our own family and the trust of our constituents. i am grateful to my husband, paul, our five children, nine grandchildren, and my family, especially our patriarch, my brother. and to the people of san francisco, thank you once again for the privilege of representing our beautiful and diverse city. in a brief span of days we will inaugurate a new president, donald trump. and a new vice president, our ormer colleague, mike pence. at that noon hour we will enact the peaceful transfer of power that is the bedrock of our republic. for eight years our country has been graced by the trail blazering leadership and dignity of president obama and michelle obama. at th

capital. on the opening day of the new congress, nancy pelosi and paul ryan spoke to members shortly after they were reelected to their positions. this is just under 30 minutes. ms. pelosi: it is my honor to join speaker ryan in welcoming all of you to the 115th congress. to new members and your families in this special moment, i offer a special greeting and special congratulations. each of us comes here sustained by the love of our own family and the trust of our constituents. i am grateful...

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. >>congressmanpaulryanwaselected speaker of the house for the 115th congress. and those who ran against. tim ryan got to votes. -- tim ryan got two votes. we hear from nancy pelosi and speaker paul ryan next. [gavel pound] pelosi: maybe you should be doing that. speaker ryan: no, you got it. i am just waving to family and friends. [gavel pound] pelosi: it is my honor to join speaker ryan in welcoming all of you to the 115th congress. to new members and your families in this special moment i offer a special greeting and special congratulations. each of us comes here sustained by the love of our own family and the trust of our constituents. i am grateful to my husband paul, our five children, our nine grandchildren, my husband, paul, our five children, nine grandchildren, and my family, especially our patriarch, my brother. and to the people of san francisco, thank you once again for the privilege of representing our beautiful and diverse city. in a brief span of days we will inaugurate a new president, donald trump. and a new vice president, our ormer colleague, mike pence. at that noon

. >> congressman paul ryan was elected speaker of the house for the 115th congress. and those who ran against. tim ryan got to votes. -- tim ryan got two votes. we hear from nancy pelosi and speaker paul ryan next. [gavel pound] pelosi: maybe you should be doing that. speaker ryan: no, you got it. i am just waving to family and friends. [gavel pound] pelosi: it is my honor to join speaker ryan in welcoming all of you to the 115th congress. to new members and your families in this special...

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congratulations to the speaker of this new congress, a proud son ofwisconsin,paulryan. paulryanisa leader of principle, immersed in ideas, and gifted with experience. as we all know paul ryan has had the full breadth of experience on capitol hill from waiter to hill staffer to congressman, he went on to be a sincere and proud advocate for his point of view as chairman of the budget committee and chairman of the ways and means committee. in a place as demanding as the speakership, i know he gathers strength daily from the family he loves so dearly, from his wife, his children, and their entire family. let's acknowledge the ryan amily. oh, wisconsin. got it. mr. speaker, god bless them, god bless you, god bless wisconsin. god bless the members of this house. god bless the united states of america. this is the people's house, this is the people's gavel. in the people's name it is my privilege to hand the gavel to the speaker of the house, paul ryan. the speaker: thank you very much.

congratulations to the speaker of this new congress, a proud son of wisconsin, paul ryan. paul ryan is a leader of principle, immersed in ideas, and gifted with experience. as we all know paul ryan has had the full breadth of experience on capitol hill from waiter to hill staffer to congressman, he went on to be a sincere and proud advocate for his point of view as chairman of the budget committee and chairman of the ways and means committee. in a place as demanding as the speakership, i know...

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richmond of louisiana, succeeding g.k. butterfield for leader. we'll look atspeakerpaulryan'stalkabout his party's plan to battle poverty and expand economic opportunity for low income americans. part of a confess the speaker took part in sponsored by the american enterprise institute. [applause] >> thank you very much. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. in addition to thanks to all of the sponsors, a special thanks to those that work so hard to put this event together. it is my privilege to introduce house speaker paul ryan. i can't think of anyone better positioned to kick off an event on economic mobility than speaker ryan. ever since his days working with the late jack kemp at a empower america, paul ryan has been sounding the alarm on our failing antipoverty system and offering bold ideas to empower americans to overcome the he spoke passionately aboutce. solving poverty while on the republican ticket in 2012. two years later he unveiled an innovative plan at the american enterprise institute to turn federal anti-poverty spending over to the states. and earlier this year, h

richmond of louisiana, succeeding g.k. butterfield for leader. we'll look at speaker paul ryan's talk about his party's plan to battle poverty and expand economic opportunity for low income americans. part of a confess the speaker took part in sponsored by the american enterprise institute. [applause] >> thank you very much. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. in addition to thanks to all of the sponsors, a special thanks to those that work so hard to put this event together. it is my...

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congress. the electionofpaulryanashouse speaker. the first 115th [indiscernible] >> are there additional representatives elect who wish to record their presence? if not, time has expired. elect haventatives recorded their presence. the forum is present. credential have been received, shown the election of the honorable jennifer gonzalez as the commissioner from the commonwealth of puerto rico for years, beginning january 3, 2017. the delegate from the district of columbia. the delegate from guam. plaskett ase stacy the delegate from the virgin islands. and the honorable delegate from the commonwealth of the islands. pursuant to law and president, the next order of business is the election of the speaker of the house for the house of representatives for the 115th congress. nominations are now in order. we recognize the gentleman from washington, mrs. mcmorris rodgers. >> whether you are from the evergreens they are the badger state, we gather here on the house floor, representing very diverse backgrounds and walks of life. this house, the people's house, the center of our gover

congress. the election of paul ryan as house speaker. the first 115th [indiscernible] >> are there additional representatives elect who wish to record their presence? if not, time has expired. elect haventatives recorded their presence. the forum is present. credential have been received, shown the election of the honorable jennifer gonzalez as the commissioner from the commonwealth of puerto rico for years, beginning january 3, 2017. the delegate from the district of columbia. the...

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, live pictures from the house of representatives where thespeakerpaulryanwillbe addressing lawmakers. there you see him right now walking in to the house of representatives on the floor. he's followed by nancy pelosi. he will actually introduce paul ryan, the speaker of the house. paul ryan will address members of the house of representatives and address the nation as well. he just tweeted by the way, paul ryan, honored to be elected speaker of the house for the 115th congress, the republicans are the majority in congress and avow to announce the agenda of the in-coming president donald trump. phil mattingly is joining us from capitol hill right now. phil, set the skoocene for us, nancy pelosi will introduce the speaker, but go ahead. >> reporter: that is correct, what we saw a few minutes ago was the completion of the house vote to speaker. what we actually saw was paul ryan faced fewer defections this time around than he did when he was initially elected speaker, why does that matter? he drew some angt -- angst. no real major defections, paul ryan will be the next speaker

, live pictures from the house of representatives where the speaker paul ryan will be addressing lawmakers. there you see him right now walking in to the house of representatives on the floor. he's followed by nancy pelosi. he will actually introduce paul ryan, the speaker of the house. paul ryan will address members of the house of representatives and address the nation as well. he just tweeted by the way, paul ryan, honored to be elected speaker of the house for the 115th congress, the...

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. this includes the swearing in of membersandpaulryanashouse speaker. entatives elect in the chamber who wish to record their presence? if not all time has expired. 434 representatives elect have recorded their presence. a quorum is present. credentials regular in form have been received showing the election of the honorable jennifer gonzalez-colon as resident commissioner from the commonwealth of puerto rico for a term of four years beginning january 3, 2017. the honorable eleanor hole ems norton as delegate from the district of columbia. the honorable madeline bore dieo as delegate from guam. the honorable stacey e. plaskett as delegate from the virgin islands. the honorable amata coleman raddy wagon as delegate from american samoa. and the honorable gre goreo sablan as delegate from the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands. pursuant to law and precedent, the next order of business is the election of the speaker of the house of representatives. for the 115th congress. nominations are now in order. the clerk recognizing the gentlewoman from washington, mrs. mcmorris rodgers.

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♪ >> the presidential inauguration of donald trump is friday, january 20. c-span will have live coverage of all of the days events and ceremonies. watch live on c-span and www.c-span.org, and on the free c-span radio app. >> housespeakerpaulryanhelda ceremonial swearing-in and photo opportunity with members of the 115th congress and their families. here is a portion of that event. [no audio] [indistinct conversation]speakerryan: gotit? all right. talk soon. [indistinct conversation]speakerryan: howyoudoing?i'mpaul. >>yes, yes, yes.speakerryan: ready?>> thank you, yes. [indiscernible] >> thank you. speaker ryan: good to meet you. we appreciate everything. >> thank you. thank you. [indiscernible] wow.speakerryan: ready?thank you. appreciate it. [indiscernible] >> one right here. >> happy new year. [laughter] >> thank you. [indistinct conversation] >> ok.speakerryan: thankyou. >> thank you, bye.speakerryan: hey,guys.it'spaul. [indistinctconversation] >> thank you. all right, thank you.speakerryan: thankyou. shaving. for [laughter] ishhe was pretty scrubbe this morning. [indiscernible] >> thank you. thanks a lot. >> appreciate it. nice seeing you. speaker ryan: right hand up. [indiscernible] >> what year? speaker ryan: nice to see you. put your right hand up. all right. >> right here. [indiscernible] >> bigger? hey guys, how y'all doing? ok, right hand up, kind of face her. a little bit higher. there you go. that's it. all right. [indistinct conversation] >> how are you? good to see you. >> right here? >> right over there. speaker ryan: did you really? hand up. thank you. speaker ryan: common, right here. >> thanks for being here. speaker ryan: right hand up. [indiscernible] speaker ryan: hey. >> thank you. yeah,r ryan: cap, i -- i do. here, right hand. face forward.d. -- all right, i think that should be one. [laughter] >> hey, happy new year. take care.n: nice meeting you. pleasure. what happened? right hand. >> one more. [laughter] speaker ryan: you got it? thank you. congratulations. [indiscernible] [laughter] [indistinct conversation] >> everyone, can you come in just a little bit? [indiscernible] >> right here. speaker ryan: sam, over here. charlie -- sam, come back here. you decide. ok. >> [indiscernible] there you go. speaker ryan: like this, yeah. ait, do we have a bible? you can swear me in! >> yeah! [indiscernible] speaker ryan: we are going to do one more. ready? that is somebody's bible. [indiscernible] speaker ryan: happy new year. facehand, right hand, first. happy new year. >> thanks. speaker ryan: all right. [indiscernible] speaker ryan: my face is hurting. claire, come on over this side. claire. good? hey, brandon, how you doing, man? [indiscernible] >> they don't win much. [laughter] >> we do another one? all right. speaker ryan: very good. [indiscernible] speaker ryan: thank you. >> thank you. speaker ryan: oh, you did? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> thank you. >> all right. >> thank you. all right. >> you good? >> all right. >> can you see underneath? >> yeah. good?r ryan: [laughter] [indiscernible] all right, who is going to make a distraction here? turnaround. ok, let us try this again. gody, go, go, ! can't getosh, yourself back. doing? how you speaker ryan: hey, guys. ready? good? >> all right, congratulations. speaker ryan: come on, old man, let's get in here! [laughter] [indiscernible] speaker ryan: face her. can you guys turnaround? like this. there you go, see? you want to get the old man in here, too? >> yeah. speaker ryan: bring everybody in. >> everybody. speaker ryan: let's hear it. everybody? >> thank you, thank you. [laughter] >> ok, we've got everyone. speaker ryan: left-hand hand on the bible. there we go. all right, thank you. [indiscernible] nice to see you. left-hand, ok. right hand. >> ok, thank you so much. speaker ryan: all right. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought you today by your cable or satellite provider. when harding became president, he appointed a person to a job where he did extremely well as director of the bureau of war insurance. it then became wrapped into the much bigger veterans bureau and forbes was raised up to be director of veterans bureau, which is now the v.a.. mary stevens, professor emeritus at the university of pennsylvania discusses her book "a time of scandal, the making of the veterans bureau." >> no one had pretty looked at the -- really looked at the veterans bureau scandal, and it was in the 1920's. in the 1920's, in the harding administration, but at the time, the veterans bureau scandal of which draws forbes was the center, was equally -- charles forbes was the center, was equally important. this man has came down as a crook. i got intrigued by this. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a.congressmanpaulryanwasselected bigger of the house. california democrat nancy pelosi got 189 votes and congressman tim ryan of ohio, who ran against congresswoman pelosi in a leadership election in late november, received two votes. we hear pelosi and speaker ryan, next. >> you should be doing that. speaker ryan: now, i got it. >>

♪ >> the presidential inauguration of donald trump is friday, january 20. c-span will have live coverage of all of the days events and ceremonies. watch live on c-span and www.c-span.org, and on the free c-span radio app. >> house speaker paul ryan held a ceremonial swearing-in and photo opportunity with members of the 115th congress and their families. here is a portion of that event. [no audio] [indistinct conversation] speaker ryan: got it? all right. talk soon. [indistinct...

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wisconsincongressmanpaulryanwasre-elected as house speaker. he will speak shortly before swearing in new house members. we have fox team coverage in all of this, laurie standing by but we'll start with chief congressional correspondence mike emmanuel, live capitol hill. kem drats already speaking out on the hill today. is it safe to say they're coming out swinging or watching paul ryan walk in, by the way. >> no question about it. it's funny, the optics here. you have a lot of family members up here, a lot of people posing for photos and looking around capitol him. you have senate democratic leaders firing warning shots. you have vice president biden swearing in new members of the senate, this hour. and on the senate floor, a short time ago, you have the new senate democratic leader taking aim at the president-elect launching this attack on the president-elect's basically like of using social media. >> america cannot afford a twitter presidency. we have real challenges and we have real needs to get things done. and many americans are afraid, mr. president-elect, that instead of ro

wisconsin congressman paul ryan was re-elected as house speaker. he will speak shortly before swearing in new house members. we have fox team coverage in all of this, laurie standing by but we'll start with chief congressional correspondence mike emmanuel, live capitol hill. kem drats already speaking out on the hill today. is it safe to say they're coming out swinging or watching paul ryan walk in, by the way. >> no question about it. it's funny, the optics here. you have a lot of...

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i got intrigued by this. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a.congressmanpaulryanwasselected bigger of the house. california democrat nancy pelosi got 189 votes and congressman tim ryan of ohio, who ran against congresswoman pelosi in a leadership election in late november, received two votes. we hear pelosi and speaker ryan, next. >> you should be doing that. speaker ryan: now, i got it. >> it is my honor to join speaker ryan in welcoming all of you to the 115th congress. the new members and your families in this special moment, and i offer a special greeting and special congratulations. rep. pelosi: each of us comes here, sustained by the love of our own family, antitrust of our constituents. i am grateful to my husband paul, our five children, nine grandchildren, and my family, especially our patriarchs, thomas does under -- thomas. again, for the privilege of representing our beautiful and diverse city. in a brief span of days, we built inaugurate a new president, donald trump, and a new vice president, our former colleague, mike pence. [applause] rep. pelosi: at

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privilege to hand the gavel to the speaker of thehouse,paulryan. [applause]♪ host: nancy pelosi turning over as house gavel to paul ryan the 115th congress goes into session. the senate starting work on the process of killing the affordable care act. with the opening of the new congress, both republicans and democrats referenced how they might be able to work together in the next session. we will hear from them in a moment. in our first half-hour today, we want to hear from republicans only. are there areas for republican legislators can work with democrats on capitol hill to get things done? whether it be job creation or infrastructure or other things. republicans only in this first half-hour. if you live in the eastern central time zone, 202-748-8000. if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202-748-8001 . if you want to post to our twitter feed, you can do so. go ahead and post on facebook as well. a lot was said about the topic of bipartisanship yesterday. we would hear from people as we go through the first half-hour on this idea of republicans only come if there are are

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with all that congress has to work on do they really have to make it unfair as it may be, their number one act, their priority? focus on tax reform, health care, so many other things of far greater importance. _#dts, drain the swamp. what the house republicans were proposing yesterday was essentially not to drain the swamp, but to put the fox in charge of the hen house. >> that's exactly right. it looked in some ways like there's a split, certainly, if you have the republican president-rekt basically slapping the wrist of house republicans, but if you look a little closer, it also could be, john, the republican president-elect helping house republican leaders to get this back on track. republican leaders in the house, they didn't want this. they were surprised this even happened. they didn't want the very first story out of the gate to be the house republicans gutting the very organization that is spoeftd to make sure that they are oot ethical. the fact that donald trump did this has sent -- our colleagues can report a little more on this -- house republicans back into a meeting as we speak to figure on the a way to fix this so that this is not going to be the story out of the gate. at the end of the day perhaps the republican leaders in the house have help getting their rank-and-file who have been very unruly for the past eight years in order. >> let's go to capitol hill. you see the house floor there as they start to get the sessions in the house and the senate in order. we'll take you there live. manu raju. is this tweet from donald trump enough to get them to say, wait a minute, if we want to do this, this was certainly the wrong way to do it? >> potentially, john. remember, it was about an hour, hour and a half ago house majority leader kevin mccarthy told reporters that there would be no changes to this rules package even though he opposed this change in the ethics body investigatory powers because is he worried about the optics. he made that case along with housespeakerpaulryanprivatelyin that closed door meeting last night, so this morning he said, look, the vote happened. it's going to happen this afternoon. i don't like this. i agree with what donald trump said, but something happened in the last hour, hour and a half with the republican leadership realizing this potentially cannot go forward because of how bad this looks and because of the fact that the president-elect is saying that he will not -- the party should not focus on this. this is the only way they could change this. have a meeting. adopt a new rules package that the full house could accept this afternoon. right now behind closed doors they are discussing what to do, and i would be surprised if the republican leadership gets rolled again by the rank-and-file because that's what happened last night, and that's why they're in this difficult spot. >> donald trump again disrupting the day. phil maddingly, you spent a lot of time on the campaign trail. here's my question for you. you understand the changed environment out in the country from the campaign trail. is this perhaps a bit of evidence that the rank and file republicans don't understand, that the donald trump election tells us something different and protecting yourself like this, doing something that's an inside game is -- we're going to go into the pledge of allegiance. sorry, phil. get back to you in just a second. >> thank you for the illumination of your presence. as we begin a new year and a new congress, please be the guide that will lead us to fulfill your purposes. >> that was the prayer there to convene the united states senate. let's get back to phil maddingly. you see the vice president joe biden standing over the shoulder. 17 days left in his vice presidency and to be the president much the senate, a sar motherian ro ceremonial role largely. he ran sometimes against the republican establishment as much as the obama administration. was this decision yesterday in a closed meeting for house republicans to gut this ethics agency maybe a reminder that they don't get the message of the election? >> i think what's interesting is that the house leadership, the members that often had so many problems, difficulties supporting now president-elect donald trump, they got it. they understood the problem that this was going to cause. they behind closed doors sources saying they warned their members. they've warned their congress. while they might agree with some of the reforms they were targeting with this ethics entity that did not agree with the timing, and that ends up why they line up directly with the president-elect. the interesting is that the rank-and-file decided to go against them anyway. despite the warnings, despite what they saw over the campaign season, despite what they expected to come from the president-elect. now, one of the interesting elements when i talked to republican aides, house aides, they said, look, we think you are making this way too overblown and people aren't going to be paying to this unless -- and the unless was -- the president-elect decided to tweet about it. he decided to tweet about it, and i can tell you over the course of the last hour or so pretty plainly, our phones are ringing. when phones are ringing, members start to react. now you have an emergency meeting. >> it is a reminder of how unpredictable the new terrain in washington. 17 days away from the trump administration, but he could have called. the president-elect could have called the leadership or called rank-and-file members. he would have had his chief of staff do that or the vice president who knows many of them do that. instead, he decided to tweet publicly, to shame them, to embarrass them in public. welcome to the new world order. that's one of many different things. as we wait for the house and senate to come in -- speaking of different, you had a very -- you had a conversation very interesting conversation this morning with the new face, the one new face in the congressional leadership, the man who will lead senate democrats. an interesting perspective on the president-elect. >> that's right. they're fellow new yorkers. chuck schumer, the new minority leader, has been the recipient of donald trump's money back when donald trump was a democrat, and the two of them have spoken, and there was a report in the new york post that donald trump when they spoke told chuck schumer that he likes him better than his fellow republican leaders. i asked him about that. listen p to how it went. >> the president-elect reportedly told you he likes you more than his fellow republicans here in congress. did he tell you that? >> i don't want to get into what he told me. this was reported by someone from the transition team. look, i don't know donald trump very well. i never played golf with him. i never had a meal with him. i crossed his path at things in new york, but that's going to have very little affect. my guiding light is going to be the principles of our party and what i this i are the right principles of our country, helping the middle class, helping those trying to get there. >> but you're not saying he didn't say that? >> he said something close to it. >> were you surprised to hear a republican president tell a democratic leader he likes you more than the republicans? >> when you get to be in my position, people do tend to want to flatter you, and you have to take it with a grain of salt. >> john, he talked about the nickname that george w. bush had for him, and it didn't do bush many favors when it came to chuck schumer, but we'll hear from him on the senate floor when the senate opens in just a bit. he is trying to really walk the line between not giving in too much but giving in just enough. >> more later on that fascinating dynamic. the republicans are taking full charge of washington, but whether the democrats -- it's also a big subject of conversation. we will get back to that. let's look up into the united states senate now. dip in for a little bit. joe biden swearing in members. >> that you take this oath, this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, to help you god. congratulations. [ applause ] >> the current vice president joe biden, the democratic vice president, again, 17 more days in his job. he has been a fixture here in washington, a creature of the united states -- proud creature of the united states senate for 30 something years before he became president obama's vice president. let's listen to the conversation in the room. we may have to jump back at any moment. as we watch this play out, mary katherine hamm, you are plugged in among conservatives. why? if this agency needs to be fixed and a lot of people say it, why not have public hearings, why not signal to the american people you're going to do this, why not get democrats on board and do it in a bipartisan basis? when with you have a new president coming to town have the first thing you do pull the teeth out of the government watchdog agency? >> it's very rare that trump tweets something. i said to myself i could have tweeted that. in this case i'm with him and the leadership on this, and i think part of it is just regular gop stupidity, which is something that they're quite adept at. >> it's a bipartisan -- >> just strategic stupidity. number two, i think it it moo be a little bit we're unleashed. donald trump is president. we shall do what we shall do, but they have forgotten that they don't have the magical power that donald trump does to tweet and change the entire media cycle. when this caught on and when it became such a symbol of what might look terrible for them and trump decided to tweet, i wonder if it also means that there is communication between the leadership in the republican congress and trump on this matter and whether that means something. >> this underscores a little bit the fact that there are sort of three factions of the republican party in washington d.c. at the moment. there is the house leadership, who we mostly consider the sort of republicans of what weknow,paulryan, kevinmccarthy, mitch mcconnell. not terribly different. there is the incoming president-elect, who has signalled he is going to do things a lot differently by tweeting his agenda. then there's this third faction, the republican freshmen and i should say the rank-and-file republican members in the house who have really bucked leadership for the last six, eight, ten years. essentially since george w. bush became a lame-duck, there have been a group of republicans who are opposed to leadership as much as they are opposed to democrats. they are going to be a factor in sort of putting together the coalitions necessary to pass whatever is on the republican agenda. >> this is -- the committee chairman, though, is a senior republican from the state of virginia. this is not a tea party rebel who wants to just poke the speaker or we wouldn't think so. >> right. exactly. reid is pointing out something that's fascinating. a lot of these members, two-thirds, have never worked under an entirely republican controlled congress, so they are going to have a president-elect who will poke at them and see how they react for a time. i think for matters of accuracy in history, democrats also hate this, and there were many democrats back in the day not that long ago, actually, who also wanted to get rid of it. we're going to hear a lot of screaming and kplcomplaining one floor from house democrats, but in reality all of them want to get rid of it. the optics are terrible. they own this problem today on day one. we'll see how it's resolved. we don't know. we started the morning thinking it would pass. we are not sure. >> if you do not have to have much of a brain to know that this is going to look terrible. >> it's really hard to know why this is the opening move of this congress, this republican house that has been talking a lot about actual policies that they want to move forward on. obama care, for example. that is such a major issue for republicans. why not focus on that? it reminds me slightly to a different degree, but it reminds me a little bit of when you had the obama care troubles and house -- the house and senate decided to shut down the government instead of focussing on that. they kind of can't get out of their own way sometimes. >> they need to stop and think before they act. let's go back to capitol hill for breaking news and whether you are a democrat, republican, or independent, it sounds like, manu, that we should all say thank you, mr. president-elect. >> well, a major about-face, republicans have just dropped that ethics change, that change to the ethics rules -- the ethics committee would investigate members going forward. they have decided to strip that very controversial provision that got all that backlash in this emergency meeting that just happened right now on capitol hill. i mean, this happened lightning fast, john. in the last hour the house republican leaders are saying this package is still going to be voted on because a majority of their members have voted for it, and they're going to do what the majority of their members want, but after donald trump's tweet criticizing this change on how ethics controversies are being investigated here in the house, they've decided no longer to move forward with that change. in this closed door meeting i'm told look with our colleague deirdre walsh that they voted by unanimous consent unanimously as a republican conference to take this provision out, so recognizing the significant backlash they've been getting and how bad of optics this is on day one of the new congress, house republicans moved forward with this package without any changes to that ethics investigation, so a major about-face for republicans after all that backlash and a hope that they could be on the same page as they move forward with their agenda going forward. john. >> manu with the breaking news on capitol hill. again, many of you at home have probably never heard of this government watchdog agency. it is about that. congress should have independent eyes watching it for ethics reasons, and it's about something else. we are learning today on the first day of the 1 15th congress that, brace yourself, these will be unpredictable times. we have a president-elect who in 17 days will be president who communicates very differently, who is not beholden to the republican party. he was nobody's favorite for the nomination among the republican leadership, and he is now about to be the president-elect, and he is proving on day one of this congress even before he moves to washington that he can change things with a tweet. >> you know, you don't want to read too much into the dynamics of the republican party based on one action here, but if we are going to try to do that, it shows thatwhenpaulryanandkevin mccarthy were saying basically the same thing to their members yesterday, their member has decided to act on their own. when donald trump says this, they act. shows us who has the juice here. >> he with saw a tweet last week from the president-elect talking about the economy, and he said thanks, donald. i think this is a thanks donald moment because this wouldn't have happened without his action. we don't know yet if there was back channel communication at the time between the president-elect in trump tower in new york and on capitol hill. >> the process was business as usual, and the process was frankly a joke. good for the president-elect for stopping it, and if they're going to do that, do it in the light of day. >> i often talk fasciously about trump's magical power, but this was obviously a fumble. you have the republican leadership and trump unified. the rank-and-file in line, which they aren't often over the past years, and the media is going, hey, trump was right. this is what i'm talking about. it's strange times. >> the honeymoons can end quickly, and, again, we're watching. you see in the top right of your screen there, that's the house coming into session. a few minutes late. they were in this meeting to now strip this controversial rules proposal. on the bottom you see vice president biden swearing in more members of the united states senate. the 115th congress getting about its business. 17 days before a new republican president comes to washington. tomorrow the current president will be on capitol hill urging house democrats to fight as hard as they can when the republicans move to repeal his signature health care act, the affordable care act, obama care. vice president-elect pence will also be there meeting with republicans trying to chart a course for repeeling it. again, unpredictability. we're seeing it today with president-elect trump changing the ethics debate. listen here. as the number two house republican and one of the president-elect's top advisors explain what is going to happen when the house moves very quickly -- the entire congress moves very quickly to repeal obama care. >> in the repeal process we can do that pretty soon. if you watch, we'll start taking up the budget. first in the senate for 2017. >> let's see what happens practically. some people -- some experts say that it could take years to actually complete the process, but there's no question that there will be different health insurance coverage in this country under president trump. >> i'm going to go to my "hamilton" friend here. winning is easy. governing is harder. kevin mccarthy says we can do this in the budget this year. kellyanne conway says it could take years. what she means is president-elect trump boxed in congressional republicans by saying preexisting condition coverage should stay. if you are 26, you should be able to stay on your parents' coverage a little longer. he named several specific proposals, but the democrats love and that cost money that he wants to keep. how do they do that? >> as democrats learned, it's tricky to revamp the entire health care system of the united states of america, and now the republicans will be facinge fac the same thing. they are going to be talking about the problems with obama care. repeal can happen quickly, technically, but they will probably put in several years of timelines or as the obama care implementation did itself so people don't get stuck by losing coverage that they had. the thing that worries me, not terribly smart about strategy, and this has to be a really delicate process if you are not going to tick off many people who do have some coverage that they like better. there are also many people who don't like their coverage better. >> it is now about taking things away from people, and that may not be popular among some people, but watch confirmation hearings. that's why these are also so important. tom price, of course, has been nominated to be the health and human services secretary. he has actual ideas how to repeal and replace obama care. we'll see if the president-elect agrees with him or if congress agrees with him. this is a tough road. kellyanne conway, lowering expectations for the speediness of this process. >> we talked about the different factions within the republican party. there are other factions too, including more idealogical factions. drr a lot of groups that are moored and want to see obama care repealed and replaced. they passed something similar to medicaid expansion. in fact, it was pretty much the same thing. they just called it something different. i think it was hoosier cares in indiana. if the answer to repeeling and replacing the aca is something that looks 98% like the aa, is that enough for the conservative idealogical groups that are still involved. >> it has been the affordable care act or obama care, call it what you will, that's been a weapon for the republicans for years now. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi saying yesterday you break it, you own it. this will become the republicans' issue now, and potentially their problem. we'll take a quick break. live coverage of the 115th congress getting about its business. a dramatic day here in washington. the president-elect already putting his stamp on this big day. when we come back, what will congress do about trade? a lot of the president's appointees to the cabinet get confirmation hearings pretty soon. we may answer then a lot of the very many questions everyone in washington has about the policy priorities of the new administration. stay with us. a special live breaking news coverage continues in just a moment. a-3s... but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? introducing megared advanced 4in1... just one softgel delivers mega support. i'm raph. my name is anne. i'm one of the real live attorneys you can talk to through legalzoom. don't let unanswered legal questions hold you up, because we're here, we're here, and we've got your back. legalzoom. legal help is here. i won this 55 inch tv for less than $30 on dealdash.com. visit dealdash.com for great deals. and start bidding today! >> welcome back it "inside politics." you can see there live the united states house of representatives coming into session, the 115th congress beginning. the bottom right of your screen, the united states senate. again, the new republican controlled congress taking charge here in washington. 17 days before the donald trump inaugural. the president-elect already making his presence felt on this day normally for celebration and ceremony. tweet from donald trump forcing house republicans to go into a private meeting and strip froo a new rules package a plan to gut an agency that oversees congressional ethics. one impact of the president-elect already. another big issue, when the congress gets about its business, gets past this ceremony, is how will republicans deal with the new president on one of the big issues where there are significant disagreements? that is trade. back to our conversation in the room. we'll keep the congress scenes up as well so you can watch it play out. donald trump is withdrawing from nafta. he can serve notice that he will withdraw from the transpacific partnership. easier said than done, but you can serve notice. it starts a process that takes some time. just this morning ford motor company says it is cancelling plans to build plants in mexico and keeping 700 jobs in the united states. they say they're doing that as a gesture, an olive branch, a vote of confidence in president-elect trump. good for president trump. president-elect trump tweegt general motors is sending mexican-made chevy cruise to the united states. car dealers tax-free across border. made in usa or pay big border tax. this is one of the most controversial proposals. democrats don't mind it so much. some democrats don't. this is against free market republican trade policies. again, listen to the number two house republican this morning saying, sure, we want to work with our new president, but we're not sure about all his trade ideas. >> we talk tax reform. what are ways we can go about bringing more jobs in america? not with a trade war. we're working on tax reform to level the playing field and give america the ability to compete around the world. >> i'm not trying to leave the impression that the new republican president will not agree. he will. he has talked about stripping regulations. he has talked about working on repealing and replacing obama care. there's a lot that they do agree on, but there are some pretty big funldamental issues where h is at odds with not only the overarching philosophy of the republican party, but with the leaders,withpaulryan, thespeaker, with mitch mcconnell, the senate yort leader wrash they are free trards. they do not believe a president of the united states or that the federal government should be picking winners and losers. singling out general motors and slapping them publicly. >> we have house republican leaders backing trade deals that the majority of americans suppo support. >> in the swing states where trade deals have hurt manufacturing jobs and the notion that this is going to be a big scism between the president-elect and the republican majority in congress is probably good for the president-elect who will be on the side of those working class white voters who won and sent him to the white house this time and, two, who he will need to keep him in the white house in four years. >> if we pass tax reform and not exactly what he wants, if we ps an immigration plan that doesn't build a wall, that has more money for some border enforcements. maybe it's drones or several miles of wall, that he will sign it. right or wrong or do we not know? >> i'm skeptical on the issue of trade. he has been -- there aren't that many things he has been consistent about for many years. i do think voters see that -- they see a lot of room between free trade and, like, tariffs and trade wars. >> as we have seen with the -- >> and the tariffs is an area where congress will have more power than trump will. he can't do that unilaterally, and he has talked about it a lot. he has continued to do it. tariffs on goods from china. that will be very hard for republicans to swallow. to the point you were making, though, the betthatpaulryanessentiallymade in the general election and then he continues to make is that donald trump wants to win. i'm not sure that is the smartestbet.paulryanhasto hang on to that right now. i don't know how donald trump will react. i think he has proven that there's no guarantees that he will support them just because it's his own party. >> he wants to be strong. he wants to project strength. that's what he is doing this morning in the gm, ford thing. he is running the show. once the congress is fully form and once is he in office, the chaltening will be the details of that. democrats want to play a role here, particularly in the senate on trade and other things. >> i'm not saying the president-elect has not had issues with stheez companies. without a doubt, he has. they will get tax reform and lower corporate taxes and they will get more incentives for keeping jobs here in the united states, so they are essentially putting their chips on the table now expecting the republican congress and the new president will give them a more pro-business environment. something they wanted throughout the obama administration, throughout the bush administration for that matter. they competing parties couldn't get together on a tax reform plan. a quick break here. when we come back, congress about to elect a new speaker of the house. lookslikepaulryanwillsurvive. remember people thought he would dp. . more as the 115th congress gets down to business here in the new republican controlled washington. stay with us. >> live pictures of the first day, first hour of the house of representatives and the united states senate. the bottom right. a big change election sends donald trump to be the president-elect 17 days away from being president of the united states. congress, three of the four leaders are the same leaders from last year. we expect the votes still have to be held later this hour. the house will vote in a speaker. weexpectpaulryantowin. nancy pelosi will be the democratic leader there. harry reid has retired. the new face of the democrats is chuck schumer, democrat from new york. last year the democrats changed the rules. it used to be you could block a nominee. >> let's do all of these in a week and not ask him any tough questions. >> the hands are tied because in the last congress your democratic leadership was part of it and changed the rules and you only need 51 votes to confirm a nominee. not 60. therefore, you're living by your rules. was that a mistake in retrospect? >> i argued against it at the time. i said both for supreme court and in cabinet should be 60 because in such important decisions there should be some degree of bipartisanship. i went on supreme court. lost on cabinet. but it's what we have to live with now. >> not the grats situation when you are in the minority. >> yep. >> can you see that full interview tonight. yep. schumer says. you want to watch that interview. very important player now in washington. if you're not familiar with him, you are employ to get familiar with him. remember, president obama is passing from the stage. vice president biden is passing from the stage. the clinton era is over. chuck schumer in the senate. nancy pelosi in the house. to the point senator schumer is making there with dana, we have confirmation hearings starting next week. you made a smart point that we have a lot of questions about what campaign promise from the president-elect actually carry over into the new administration. when tom price is being confirmed for health and human services, how do they want to deal with obama care? when general madison is being confirmed for the defense secretary, what will he do about russia hacking and the threat from north korea on the table? go through each and every agency and we have a lot of question marks. the democrats, though, are powerless. unless they can get republicans, the democrats are largely powerless. >> all of these nominees have been working with the transition officials, specifically shifting policy ideas. we need to learn much more about what he thinks and what this administration thinks and simply about their own backgrounds. the reality is most of them, if not all of them, will likely be confirmed. that's how the math works. you can see the look on senator schumer's face. i can remember that. he is speaking accurately there. we are going to get a lot of answers to what trump's policies are going to be here, but, you know, if mitch mcconnell wants to get a lot of people confirmed by inauguration day, that will very likely happen. >> but we're also going to learn not only some of the policy details, but we're going to learn whether -- will we learn? are they there yet? do they understand they're going to lose the bully pulpit? they're going to lose it whether you like him or support him, a very powerful communicator in president obama. a very loyal and well known democrat in joe biden. the clintons are gone. >> i think you would expect pretty strong questioning at least and probably lock step opposition to people like tom price for hhs, scott pruett to head the epa, and some other folks like that. the problem for democrats, though, is that you kind of only -- you kind of have on pick and choose. you can't be against everybody or you become the obstructionist party that they have been complaining about for the eight years of the obama administration. a part of me thinks that president-elect trump has given these -- >> two people and two issues that democrats are talking about focussing on in the hearings is russia, obviously. we know that's part of the discussion. also, for the hearings to be an opportunity where democrats are going to try to have a reset on their economic message. they're still trying to figure out exactly what that is, but they see that as an opportunity to if not block him from confirmation, at least take some shots at him and try to damage trump's reputation as a president who is going to look out for the working class and then turns around and appoints people with goldman backgrounds. >> we learned from the campaign that trump likes to be a counter puncher, and if the democrats beat him up so much -- beat up his people so much in the confirmation process, will trump then push back on infrastructure spend and on trade. a member of the house leadership team cathy mcrogersnominatingpaulryanforspeaker of the house. >> here in this chamber. by the people and for the people. just over a year ago when he picked up that gavel, speaker ryan challenged us to raise our gaze, to respect this institution and open up the legislative process, says which represents the will of the people, to be accountability people we represent, to be men and women of integrity, to serve our country with pump and to empower everyone to reach their full potential.speakerryanknowsthat the healthy competition of ideas between our passionate talented members is an says asset to representativegovernment.paulryanmadea commitment to getting the institution working, and as a result we've had more conference committees and more bipartisan achievements. he put this majority to work on bold policy solutions that have united us. under his leadership this think tank of ideas was able to find common ground without compromising conservative principles. together after crisscrossing our districts and listening to americans of all walks of life, we developed a better way. our vision for a confident america. policy that saw the biggest challenges of our time. policies that trust people not the government to make their own decisions and pursue their own dreams. as speaker ryan said the day he was called upon for his role, nothing could be more inspiring than a job well done. nothing could stir the heart more than real concrete results. in this critical moment as our unified republican government begins to take its place, we have an opportunity to think big, to reimagine this government from the top to the bottom. it's time to rebelieve the american dwrd and reclaim the people's voice. there's no one better to lead the people's house in that callingthanpauld.ryan. throughall of it the man from james ville never forgets who he works for. he insists on calling his constituents his employers. he insists on all of us callinghimpaul. makeno mistake, today and every day we are honored to call him mr. speaker. >> that's cathy mcmorris rogers, a member of the house leadership team. republican from washington state. the highest ranking who am in the republican leadership, nominating herfriend,paulryan, forspeaker of the says house. democrats will nominate nancy pelosi, but we fullykmppaulryanwillbe reelected. a quick break. inside politics will continue in just a moment. the big day here opening day for the 115th congress. the house and the 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one is the whole russian hacking question. there is broad bipartisan agreement that russia hacked into institutions here in the united states, including the democratic national committee, including john podesta's emails and meddled in the election. the one slois questioning that still is the president-elect of the united states. a lot of republicans are nervous about this. we know his vice president, mike pence is, a russia hawk. very skeptical of vladimir putin. he has muted that because the boss won't go there. listen to vice president elect this morning. he has asked a direct question. have you lost faith in the u.s. intelligence community? it and he punts. >> have you lost confidence in the u.s. intelligence community? >> i think the challenges will be faced with new american strength and leadership. engaging leaders around the world as the president-elect has done. it's all part and parcel of a new season. >> pretty straight forward question, and you could answer yes or no. you could give a more nuanced answer. instead he ignores the question completely because this is one area where we are reasonably certain for people close to him he disgrays with the boss, and he is a little skrept e skeptical about why his boss won't say i win, i will be president, but i'm going to find out what the russians did, and i will hold them accountable. >> i'm sympathetic to those in the trump circle that think that people are using this story to delegitimatize trump. i think faets thar. the best way to conquer that is to say i'm going to get to the bottom of this and be serious about it, but this is where the new shape of the democratic caucus is interesting to me because also it does not look like the ascended psycholigs with pelosi and schumer heading it, schumer is as hard-nosed as reid but savvier, and he knows that, for instance, trump might like him better than others in the republican party. that he could work with him on some things. and that republicans are worried about the russian issue. i think he will be better at figuring out where they can work together than a reid would have be where. >> it's also possible -- i don't want to say likely, but it is possible that trump has created a way out of this for himself. if you listen to some transition officials when they briefed reporters earlier today, they talked about intel officials coming to give trump another briefing on this later this week. we have james clapper who will be up on the hill and an obama administration report that's coming out. it is possible he could use that as his window to say i've now been briefed more fully, and i gra he with russia. i don't think we should be holding our breath for that given what he said in the past, but essential people around him would like for this issue to be viewed in a different lens. it's really unbelievable that we're still talking about this right now. >> we're still talking about it, and it is an issue. you're right. president-elect trump himself has said people have tried to delegitimatize me. he won. he will be president of the united states in 17 days. if you are out there thinking that's going to go away, get over it. he will be president of the united states. does the president trust the men and women who have risked their lives across number of agencies. wait a minute. we're risking our lives to get you this information. senator john mccain wants to have investigations in the armed services committee. he believes the senate intelligence committee will also have investigations. he is just back from a trip from eastern yoourp. he says this isn't just a washington issue. he says some of our small allies in eastern europe are worried about the new president. >> i can assure you our friends in eastern europe are concerned about what this administration's policy will be. of course, vladimir putinin, they're already feeling a lot of pressu pressu pressure. they're deeply concerned. there is there's a lot of us in the united states senate that's -- >> a little bit of background news there. noise as manu tried to interview senator mccain there, but he says there's a lot of a lot of pressure. this is a big test for the -- we can make it about politics in washington, but this is a huge global test for the president-elect on the world stage because once the clock ticks, the 17 more days, it matters. >> i think something you hinted that underscores one of the biggest changes between the obama administration and the trump administration. that's how the various white houses are going to work within each other. president obama stroef to create an administration that had no drama. no drama obama was the big story. this president-elect has set up what is essentially a team of rivals wrush you have people like the president and the vice president very clearly disagreeing. very clearly disagreeing about russia and its role in terms of the u.s. and whether it's an ally or antagonist. you know, we've got john bolten in the conversation to have a prominent role in russia. i mean, there are a number of russia hawks who were very likely to have very prominent roles within the administration, and then there are a bunch of people who take a view that's much more like donald trump. it's a way we never saw within the obama administration, and that could lead to great results. it's just different from what the way obama -- >> i think on russia this is something that donald trump did not campaign on. his constituents, his supporters, his admirers don't necessarily, i don't think, are going to follow him on the putinen thing. this is something that's engrained in our history more and on trade. he is a little out there more on his own. that could be one huge confrontation with the republicans. >> very important. you mentioned he may find a pivot here. very important the things he says in the next several days. including once he takes his hand off the bible about russia and about north korea, which is threatening to test an intercontinental ballistic missile. we'll head to a break here. as we go to break, let's listen to the new senate democratic leader for a moment, chuck schumer of new york. >> it becomes clear the democratic proposals on what the american people want and need i hope many will. but we are not in the majority. we cannot dilute anyone that will congress -- we can raise our voices to present an alternative way forward and we can rally the american people to support this program. (snap) achoo! achoo! feel a cold coming on? zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45%. shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. well you don't want to live with mom and dad forever, do you? then she says...bazang! ok, good one. uh, how do i check my credit score? credit karma. it's free. credit karma. give yourself some credit. >> senator chuck schumer, the new democratic leader speelking live. first day of the 115th congress. >> on presidents of both parties. many in this body have long observed that in america we are a nation of laws, not men. that sacred constitutional duty of holding the president accountable to the law must continue, and democrats will make sure of it. sometimes it will mean pointing out where his rhetoric and reality diverge, and sometimes it will

with all that congress has to work on do they really have to make it unfair as it may be, their number one act, their priority? focus on tax reform, health care, so many other things of far greater importance. _#dts, drain the swamp. what the house republicans were proposing yesterday was essentially not to drain the swamp, but to put the fox in charge of the hen house. >> that's exactly right. it looked in some ways like there's a split, certainly, if you have the republican...

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vonnie:vonnie: shortly on capit, vice president-elect by -- mike pence willjoinpaulryanfora news conference. a meeting with house republicans on the future of the affordable care act. you are watching live pictures there as we await the vice president-elect. there is the president and chuck schumer. we are following that as well. president obama holding similar meetings right now at the capital with democrats from both the house and the senate to discuss the hindering obamacare repeal. upwill see what they come with. president-elect donald trump has been tweeting about the act, saying republicans must be careful in that the democrats owned the failed obamacare disaster. -- out of this web. that was referring to chuck schumer. we bring you all of this live as it begins. u.s. trading session, julie hyman is here with the latest. julie: the rally continuing into its second day. we tend to see a flip on the first week of trading on the new year from what we saw last week of the last year. we could see an up week this week of the last -- if the last five years are any indication.

vonnie:vonnie: shortly on capit, vice president-elect by -- mike pence will join paul ryan for a news conference. a meeting with house republicans on the future of the affordable care act. you are watching live pictures there as we await the vice president-elect. there is the president and chuck schumer. we are following that as well. president obama holding similar meetings right now at the capital with democrats from both the house and the senate to discuss the hindering obamacare repeal....

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crafted into laws. no one understands this better than our speaker of thehouse,paulryan, hetruly is the people's speaker, because he understands the responsibility given to this body by our founders. it's our responsibility to protect the constitution and the balance of power that representative government, the rule of law, and equal opportunity for all is protected here in this chamber. by the people and for the people. just over a year ago when he picked up that gavel, speaker ryan challenged us to raise our gaze, to respect this institution, and open up the legislative process which best represents the will of the people. to be accountable to the people we represent. to be men and women of integrity. to serve our country with purpose and to empower everyone to reach their full potential. speaker ryan knows that the healthy competition of ideas between our passionate, talented members is an asset to representative government. as speaker, paul ryan made a commitment to getting this institution working and as a result we have had more conference committees and more bipartis

crafted into laws. no one understands this better than our speaker of the house, paul ryan, he truly is the people's speaker, because he understands the responsibility given to this body by our founders. it's our responsibility to protect the constitution and the balance of power that representative government, the rule of law, and equal opportunity for all is protected here in this chamber. by the people and for the people. just over a year ago when he picked up that gavel, speaker ryan...

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opens we'll take youtopaulryanrightnow. >> we're actually having a fantastic opportunity right here in philadelphia where our constitution was inked and declaration was signed. we're here exciting talking about how we improve people's lives and get our country back on track. house republicans and senate republicans are working on a plan and bold agenda to get moving and work with our new administration. we're very exciting that we're going to be hosting vice president pence and president trump and prime minister may coming as well. we have a lot in store. our members are excited. we have a big bowlld agenda we' working on. with that i'd like to turn over to the majority leader. >> thank you, mr. speaker. obviously, one of the things that will be explored here is a new relationship with united kingdom. one of our earliest and oldest allies with their changes in their approach to trade it opens up the opportunity for the president to discuss with the prime minister the possibility of a bilateral trade agreement with the british people, interesting new topic. in the senate as you know

opens we'll take you to paul ryan right now. >> we're actually having a fantastic opportunity right here in philadelphia where our constitution was inked and declaration was signed. we're here exciting talking about how we improve people's lives and get our country back on track. house republicans and senate republicans are working on a plan and bold agenda to get moving and work with our new administration. we're very exciting that we're going to be hosting vice president pence and...

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conscious republican incongresspaulryansayingyes in deed congress will foot the bill. jeremy is at the white house for us, let's talk about what the president had to say a while ago and let's get into the practicality of this $15 billion wall. how does he move forward with this? >> reporter: the first thing he had do was get congressional republicans on board and he does have to do that yet. paul ryan, and mitch mcconnell getting behind this border idea which republicans have moved away from in recent years with mcconnell and ryan really being quite hesitant and fully supporting the wall during the primary campaign and even into the general election, so clearly president trump has the republicans on board, what he needs to do is this is all hinging on the fact that he can get mexico to pay back the united states for building the wall. now the meeting has been cancelled and president trump issuing sort of a veiled threat if we can't have a meeting of the minds then we may have to go a different route, it's unclear what that is, he signalled if he could not come to an agreement that they

conscious republican in congress paul ryan saying yes in deed congress will foot the bill. jeremy is at the white house for us, let's talk about what the president had to say a while ago and let's get into the practicality of this $15 billion wall. how does he move forward with this? >> reporter: the first thing he had do was get congressional republicans on board and he does have to do that yet. paul ryan, and mitch mcconnell getting behind this border idea which republicans have moved...

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senators andspeakerpaulryanswearsin house.s of the we'll have a full replay of opening day on 8:00 p.m. eastern c-span and c-span 2. >> having a little bit of technology that puts tweets on air for you. you can post to the site. e wanted to show you some facebook comments this morning. r as her messages to washington. saints michelle moore, enjoy the last days of peace and dignity. -- saying dave russell said -- claudia ewing said -- reflecting that the about midterm elections. washington ino 2017. that is what we want to hear from you this morning. to whole three hours devoted this and taking as many calls as we can. we will hear other voices. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. for independents, (202) 748-8002 . post onaid, you can twitter. we cannot show that today, we will work on that. that is http://twitter.com/cspanwj and you can post on facebook. when it comes to the agenda is self, the washington post highlights things that will be on for congressional republicans saying this year's agenda has clarity that was otherwise lacking from trump campa

senators and speaker paul ryan swears in house.s of the we'll have a full replay of opening day on 8:00 p.m. eastern c-span and c-span 2. >> having a little bit of technology that puts tweets on air for you. you can post to the site. e wanted to show you some facebook comments this morning. r as her messages to washington. saints michelle moore, enjoy the last days of peace and dignity. -- saying dave russell said -- claudia ewing said -- reflecting that the about midterm elections....

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. > why was this a priority soriy early on? >> well, it was --look,paulryan, ithink they tried to slip this in. i was the wrong thing to do. substantively it was the righthe thing to do. the whole thing is probably unconscious al. there's no reason law makers police themselves. i think -- this is trump's first real stab at leading the party. i think he's doing that. and as he's leading the partye and leading the nation via twitter. i think trump is off to a good start. before we start talking about trump's start. i'm just curious, what do youu think, jack said that lawmakers should be able to policepo themselves? do you a agree wite >> certainly they should be ablb to police themselves, but thist independent office was put int because there was some problems with the ethics committee and there's been some partisan issues there. it put in when i worked for nancy speak lowe's i.nc we put ity sp in specificallyfia because we wanted to be independent and then refer those who the agency who then would take action against members. trump had big impact but so did calls to members of the

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anything racist and ben smith and buzz feed could say he could be called racist. iheardpaulryansayhis behavior in the past was the definition of racist. >> paul ryan is not a part of a ns organization. i'm talking plain, simple journalism, this is about reporting the news, an editor. what they consider a news site, saying you guys are-- it's all fair game. you can call him a racistment i just don't-- it just doesn't fit-- >> you wouldn't report on what paul ryan defined as-- >> guys, hold on, juan. i want juan to react. >> juan, it speaks to the-- >> i was just going to say, i mean, paul ryan said that. to me, for donald trump to jump up and scream about the fake news and buzz feed and the rest, you know, his behavior, he's the guy that started the birther movement. remember that? talk about fake news. and everybody reported on it and followed it for months. eric: let' get gina in. >> i would just say, the bottom line is this, every nominee brings their family with them to these confirmation hearings and what this quote does, it exposes the obsession on the left with race. and the

anything racist and ben smith and buzz feed could say he could be called racist. i heard paul ryan say his behavior in the past was the definition of racist. >> paul ryan is not a part of a ns organization. i'm talking plain, simple journalism, this is about reporting the news, an editor. what they consider a news site, saying you guys are-- it's all fair game. you can call him a racistment i just don't-- it just doesn't fit-- >> you wouldn't report on what paul ryan defined as--...

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. breaking news, as you just heard, speaker of thehousepaulryanwillbe addressing the house any minute now after officially being reelected just moments ago as house speaker. of course, we'll bring that to you live as soon as it begins. all clapping right there. i am ashley webster, good afternoon, everybody, in for trish regan and "the intelligence report" on this tuesday. the 115th congress, republicans now control both the house and senate and, yes, we'll have a republican president, donald trump, just 17 days from now. mr. trump and the new congress vow i to get a lot of work done right away including repealing and replacing obamacare. all of this as ford motor cancels plans to build a new plant in mexico, calling it a, quote, vote of confidence, unquote, in the pro-business environment the president-elect is creating. we'll have more on that in just a moment. but first, let's head to capitol hill where we find our very own peter barnes and what has been quite a busy day, peter. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, it has been, and paul ryan has not even been sworn in yet, and h

. breaking news, as you just heard, speaker of the house paul ryan will be addressing the house any minute now after officially being reelected just moments ago as house speaker. of course, we'll bring that to you live as soon as it begins. all clapping right there. i am ashley webster, good afternoon, everybody, in for trish regan and "the intelligence report" on this tuesday. the 115th congress, republicans now control both the house and senate and, yes, we'll have a republican...

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in line that actually, you know, not only kevin mccarthybutpaulryanandeverybody was falling in line and following up. as bob costas reported, the phone calls started coming. >> the guys in the closed door session on monday night, it was like they cut through the screen of the back door to break into the house and they got caught on the porch and they fled. >> what a stupid way. you're like a republican going, okay, well, this is the most historic lead we have electorally since 1948. what should we do? first thing, gut the ethics rules. >> they are so intent in showing they were going to turn over the tables on the temple the first day. watch what we can do but picked the wrong issue to do it on. the media coverage was intense. flooding their offices followed and donald trump tweeting about it was probably the final nail in the could have when paul ryan and kevin mccarthy got together with these guys. >> bob costas reported, according to his reporting, they received thousands of calls from constituents. >> what inspired those calls? was it people on their own calling the congres

in line that actually, you know, not only kevin mccarthy but paul ryan and everybody was falling in line and following up. as bob costas reported, the phone calls started coming. >> the guys in the closed door session on monday night, it was like they cut through the screen of the back door to break into the house and they got caught on the porch and they fled. >> what a stupid way. you're like a republican going, okay, well, this is the most historic lead we have electorally since...

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. next up, speaker of thehouse,paulryan, outliningthe republicans' 200-day policy agenda in an interview with "politico." his commenlts friday came after the congressional republicans met in philadelphia for their annual retreat. this is about 30 minutes. we'll show you as much as we can before the house comes in at about 4:30 eastern. jake: good afternoon. packed house. hank you very much for coming. thank you to all of you in the room. and all of you joining in live streamland for our first playbook interview event with speaker paul ryan. we're kicking off this newest playbook series with a timely conversation to provide insight and intelligence about the new washington and what to expect and what you need to know as we kick off the trump administration. these events are a live extension of the playbook interview which we do in playbook often, where we host conversations with news makes that are we run in playbook for you guys to read. we're very -- we're looking forward to hosting many of these conversations throughout the year. and we're excited for speaker ryan. ana: absol

. next up, speaker of the house, paul ryan, outlining the republicans' 200-day policy agenda in an interview with "politico." his commenlts friday came after the congressional republicans met in philadelphia for their annual retreat. this is about 30 minutes. we'll show you as much as we can before the house comes in at about 4:30 eastern. jake: good afternoon. packed house. hank you very much for coming. thank you to all of you in the room. and all of you joining in live streamland...

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congress has been sworn in. housespeakerpaulryanispromising unity among members of the gop as democrats work to do the same. >>> and as authorities continue the massive search for the istanbul attacker, we're getting a look at new security footage that appears to show the gunman. >>> good morning, everyone. it is july 4, and i'm alex witt. the house republican caucus held a private vote behind closed doors on a federal holiday. lawmakers awoke to outrage with a torrent of angry constituent calls. >> at 8:00 this morning when i got in the office, the first phone call i picked up was from what a citizen said in my district that was so upset that the republican majority would have made this decision to eliminate this influence from the outside group to make sure we followed the ethics rules of the house. >> and there was displeasure from incoming president donald trump, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog, as unfair as they may be? their number one act and priority focus on tax reform, health care and

congress has been sworn in. house speaker paul ryan is promising unity among members of the gop as democrats work to do the same. >>> and as authorities continue the massive search for the istanbul attacker, we're getting a look at new security footage that appears to show the gunman. >>> good morning, everyone. it is july 4, and i'm alex witt. the house republican caucus held a private vote behind closed doors on a federal holiday. lawmakers awoke to outrage with a torrent...

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speaker to be the previous housespeakerpaulryanandhe is in this meeting trying to damp down the controversy over the office of congressional ethics. involving congress around the former lobbyist, under this office, basically the beef. some members are concerned that is not the due process, these tips are unfair and house republicans proposed in the package they are passing later today, and fold this office into the house ethics committee to give it more structure, and on both sides they complained about this office and so republicans, even though paul ryan and majority leader kevin mccarthy personally opposed to doing this at least in this way, they did -- members having second thoughts. neil: do you know if they are going to do this, sort of come out the gate swinging and at first sight, pooling it, just reaction to the news in a moment. >> it doesn't sound like the president-elect's office was given a heads up on this. this package is a huge bill filing measure this thick that lays out the rules of procedure for congress, it can become a christmas tree bill, in the provision t

speaker to be the previous house speaker paul ryan and he is in this meeting trying to damp down the controversy over the office of congressional ethics. involving congress around the former lobbyist, under this office, basically the beef. some members are concerned that is not the due process, these tips are unfair and house republicans proposed in the package they are passing later today, and fold this office into the house ethics committee to give it more structure, and on both sides they...

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sentiment against this office but house republicanleadership,paulryanandkevin mccarthy chiefly, knew behind the scenes they had a big optical issue in stripping t independent watchdog of its power on the first day of the 115th congress. it's almost like they didn't see the election, didn't see the message of the election and what voters were saying. now, there doesn't seem to be a lot of outcry that paul ryan and kevin mccarthy kind of stripped this from the legislation from the house rules package. i think people want to move on. there are inside the belt way problems with the ethics office some members of congress would say. come on, doing this on the first day of congress shows that once again house republicans have a lot of internal cross winds to put it politely that they have to deal with. >> donald trump taking another victory lap, jake, over jobs. this time ford. walk us through what's happening here. >> ford said that they would put the money that they were going to put into a mexican plant into michigan now, the ceo of ford said that had nothing to do with donald trum

sentiment against this office but house republican leadership, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy chiefly, knew behind the scenes they had a big optical issue in stripping t independent watchdog of its power on the first day of the 115th congress. it's almost like they didn't see the election, didn't see the message of the election and what voters were saying. now, there doesn't seem to be a lot of outcry that paul ryan and kevin mccarthy kind of stripped this from the legislation from the house...

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. you know. iwaspaulryantalkingabout repealing it before i got sick. iwaspaulryan. butnot anymore. paul's a nice guy, speaker ryan is a very nice man. as a matter of fact, after went to break last night, i went up and visited with him. he called me up to the stage, he's a very personable guy. i understand why he's in the position he's in and why he's as popular as he is. and he was interested in what i had to say and we exchanged contact information you know. and i hope they come back and maybe ask my opinion. >> i've got a couple of things i want to ask you about paul ryan. what did you like specifically about obamacare? what didn't you like about it? >> that it was a government program. anything that involved government, i was opposed to. libertarian-leaning republican. >> and -- >> so if government was involved, i didn't like it. >> were you wrong about that? >> you can ask all my -- i was definitely wrong. >> why? >> yeah. why was i wrong? because there's certain sectors that, you know, need a little push from the government. >> so -- go on sorry about the delay. i'm s

. you know. i was paul ryan talking about repealing it before i got sick. i was paul ryan. but not anymore. paul's a nice guy, speaker ryan is a very nice man. as a matter of fact, after went to break last night, i went up and visited with him. he called me up to the stage, he's a very personable guy. i understand why he's in the position he's in and why he's as popular as he is. and he was interested in what i had to say and we exchanged contact information you know. and i hope they come back...

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reportedly came as a surprise and without the support of housespeakerpaulryanormajority leader kevin mccarthy. the full house is scheduled to vote later today. under the measure, the office of congressional ethics will be renamed the office of congressional complaint review and placed under the oversight of the house ethics committee. the move will take away authority and independence from the investigative body and give more power to lawmakers over internal inquiries. according to "the washington post," under new rules the office will not be able to employ a spokesperson, investigate anonymous tips, or refer criminal wrongdoing to prosecutors without the express consent of the ethics committee, which would also gain the power to end any of the office's investigations. the measure's sponsor, republican bob goodlatte of virginia, said in a statement the move "builds upon and strengthens the current arrangement and improves the due process rights for the house members under investigation." we will have more on the office of congressional ethics later in the broadcast with craig holman,

reportedly came as a surprise and without the support of house speaker paul ryan or majority leader kevin mccarthy. the full house is scheduled to vote later today. under the measure, the office of congressional ethics will be renamed the office of congressional complaint review and placed under the oversight of the house ethics committee. the move will take away authority and independence from the investigative body and give more power to lawmakers over internal inquiries. according to...

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quickly overshad doed the agendaaspaulryantookthe speaker's gavel once again. high on the agenda repealing and replacing the law obama is in tracy pots in washington. as the president heads to the hill so does president-elect -- >> it's interesting they're both here nor the strategy sessions to figure out to to repeal or save obamacare, the affordable care act. interestingly, republicans amongst themselves disagree on how to deal with it. >> a senate debate begins on health care behind closed doors this morning. president obama with democrats trying to save the act and vice president elect mike pence. >> we'll focus on repealing and replacing obamacare. >> meeting with republicans determined to get rid of it. >> we hear you. we will do right by you. and we will deliver. >> reporter: but with no replacement, the game plan may be repeal and delay. >> it is not acceptable to repeal the law, throw our health care system into ch leave the hard work for another day. >> reporter: some republicans are under pressure from constituents who would lose their ability to lose a doctor. preside

quickly overshad doed the agenda as paul ryan took the speaker's gavel once again. high on the agenda repealing and replacing the law obama is in tracy pots in washington. as the president heads to the hill so does president-elect -- >> it's interesting they're both here nor the strategy sessions to figure out to to repeal or save obamacare, the affordable care act. interestingly, republicans amongst themselves disagree on how to deal with it. >> a senate debate begins on health...

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have said the president is going to meetwithpaulryan. whenyouaskpaulryan, hesays i have got to wait for the administration. we are going to have an plasm i think that's very much too much mind for a lot of members here. another gop priority, reforming the tax code. it sounds like we are going to hear today more about issues that a lot of the republican lawmakers don't want to be talking about. they don't want to be talking about torture for example. they don't want to be talking for the most part about voter fraud. jason chef, et cetera says his committee has no investigation of investigating whether there was voter fraud in this election and that the president can use the justice department if he so chooses to conduct that investigation. others have said there is no evidence of massive voter fraud in the election. just today we have shawn spicer confirming that he plans to sign -- donald trump plans to sign an executive order relate to the this. it will be interesting to hear if he offers more of a defense of why he feels this way to these law makers and per pet waits somethin

have said the president is going to meet with paul ryan. when you ask paul ryan, he says i have got to wait for the administration. we are going to have an plasm i think that's very much too much mind for a lot of members here. another gop priority, reforming the tax code. it sounds like we are going to hear today more about issues that a lot of the republican lawmakers don't want to be talking about. they don't want to be talking about torture for example. they don't want to be talking for...

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debacle intended to showcase the gop's new agendaandpaulryantookthe gavel once again, and high on the agenda, replacing what president obama is looking to defend. we have the president and vice president-elect duelling. >> some are skeptical about how it's working with the rising premiums. they have not figured out what to replace it with. >> a debate behind closed doors this morning, and president obama and democrats trying to save the affordable care act and mike pence -- >> will focus on repealing and replacing obamacare. >> reporter: meeting with republicans determined to get rid of it. >> we hear you and we will do right by you and we will deliver. >> reporter: but with no replacement, the game plan could be repeal and delay. >> it's not acceptable to repeal the law and throw our health care system into chaos and then leave the hard work for another day. >> some republicans are under pressure for constituents back home that could lose their ability to see a doctor. >> it's not surprising me to that that does leave republicans queazy. >> president obama wants to keep protectio

debacle intended to showcase the gop's new agenda and paul ryan took the gavel once again, and high on the agenda, replacing what president obama is looking to defend. we have the president and vice president-elect duelling. >> some are skeptical about how it's working with the rising premiums. they have not figured out what to replace it with. >> a debate behind closed doors this morning, and president obama and democrats trying to save the affordable care act and mike pence --...

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convened with a jammed packedagenda.paulryan, foxcorrespondent joe walden has more. >> the speaker of the house, paul ryan. >>> thank you very much. >>> house speaker paul ryan getting sworn in along with new members of the 115th congress. just moments before house republicans announcing they were withdrawing a proposal to withdraw independence and opposition from ryan and kevin mccarthy and tweets from president-elect donald trump proving to be too much for the republicans. the white house quick to criticize. >> i suspect that this is not going to be the first time that we see congressional republicans in this congress seeking to help people in positions of power. >>> the first time in a decade both chambers of congress and the incoming president are all republican. and the shift in power has gop lawmakers chomping at the bit to talk about environmental and financial regulations to repealing and replacing obama care. democrats however are vowing to fight the republicans conservative agenda. >> we will fight them tooth and nail for the instincts that diminish america. >> and sure to b

convened with a jammed packed agenda. paul ryan, fox correspondent joe walden has more. >> the speaker of the house, paul ryan. >>> thank you very much. >>> house speaker paul ryan getting sworn in along with new members of the 115th congress. just moments before house republicans announcing they were withdrawing a proposal to withdraw independence and opposition from ryan and kevin mccarthy and tweets from president-elect donald trump proving to be too much for the...

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along party lines. but a man told his storywithpaulryan. alifelong republican was so strongly opposed to obamacare that he told his wife he would close their business rather than comply with the law. that was before he was given six weeks to live. now he says this. >> i want to thank president obama from the bottom of my heart, because i would be dead if it weren't for him. >> that was a very powerful moment, a very powerful exchange with the speaker of the how long. and now jeff genes joins me now. h thank you for joining us, you doing snok. >> yeah, thanks for having me, said you were a republican, opposed to obamacare, then you got sick. what happened next? >> my wife, you know, secured the preexisting condition insurance, and my policy took effect april 1st, 2012. and that's when my chemo and radiation started, and it saved my life. and after that, go ahead, don. >> no, go ahead. continue on. >> so anyway, after that, you know, i cried in my hospital bed, because i'd been wrong so long. and i thought, what can i do to tell other people what i went through? and, you know, t

along party lines. but a man told his story with paul ryan. a lifelong republican was so strongly opposed to obamacare that he told his wife he would close their business rather than comply with the law. that was before he was given six weeks to live. now he says this. >> i want to thank president obama from the bottom of my heart, because i would be dead if it weren't for him. >> that was a very powerful moment, a very powerful exchange with the speaker of the how long. and now...

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leadership role of speaker of thehouse,paulryan, whetherthat republican house might have moved a little bit too swiftly for donald trump's liking, particularly on trying to reign in an ethics committee. donald trump was tweeting all the way this was not the time to pursue this as a lead-off agenda item. sure enough, they bent to that pressure. they decided maybe not is not the time to do that. virginia republican congressman, david pratt, familiar to you and taking down eric cantor. congressman, happy new year. >> happy new year, neil. >> what do you make of what happened with donald trump urging i think you guys to sort of get your priorities straight and sure enough some of your colleagues suggested that by scrapping the ethics committee rule change? what do you make of it? >> yeah, i think that the press got out a little in advance and made it sound like the congress and the republican caucus was moving back on that. i don't think that's the case. there were some that got ahead of judiciary. we a used ethics to bludgeon those on the democratic said as a political weapon. so go

leadership role of speaker of the house, paul ryan, whether that republican house might have moved a little bit too swiftly for donald trump's liking, particularly on trying to reign in an ethics committee. donald trump was tweeting all the way this was not the time to pursue this as a lead-off agenda item. sure enough, they bent to that pressure. they decided maybe not is not the time to do that. virginia republican congressman, david pratt, familiar to you and taking down eric cantor....

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cheeringfrompaulryan'sofficethinking this is them embracing a key partofpaulryan'splanand only he took it back later. that's why it is so uncomfortable asking them and trying to answer questions over the course of his agenda. trump is talking about a lot of things they don't want to be talking about at all. they don't twoont opwant to reo investigation into voter fraud. >> is there a bigger problem? for example, not just the crazy stuff of crowd size. the republican regulators and people in congress, do they have a plan? did they go along with big spending on frinfrastructure. just those issues alone, it is going to cause a lot of clashes. >> yes, a lot of donald trump's populist agenda contrast directly of what conservativ conservatives -- these guys are fiscal conservatives and they are big on bordered security but they don't want to alienate hispanics because they believe in the long-term, that's the future of the party. there is a major personality clash going on here, too. >> mcconnell and ryan are people referred to each other by their titles and they wear ties to wo

cheering from paul ryan's office thinking this is them embracing a key part of paul ryan's plan and only he took it back later. that's why it is so uncomfortable asking them and trying to answer questions over the course of his agenda. trump is talking about a lot of things they don't want to be talking about at all. they don't twoont opwant to reo investigation into voter fraud. >> is there a bigger problem? for example, not just the crazy stuff of crowd size. the republican regulators...

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talents of our people in a common cause.--akerpaulryan, ireally oh, no, i have come to appreciate him. speaker paul ryan, where is the speaker? where is he? beenl you, he has terrific, and you know, honestly, he is like a fine wine. every day goes by, i get to appreciate his genius more and more. we are going to need our more engaged be and more vigilant than ever before, to help us accomplish the reforms and overcome decades of stalemate and gridlock. we are going to get it done, folks. with cabinet confirmation hearings underway, we start by looking at the team trump is building to run his administration. we sorted into four categories, the generals, john kelly to head mattisd security, james for secretary of defense, and michael flynn as his national security advisor. mark: we are calling the next group the tycoons, rex tillerson to be secretary of state, steven ross, who trump wants for commerce secretary, and the fast food mogul. choicecmahon is trump's at the small business administration, and tapping carl icahn for a special role of regulatory czar. there is no shortage of

talents of our people in a common cause. --aker paul ryan, i really oh, no, i have come to appreciate him. speaker paul ryan, where is the speaker? where is he? beenl you, he has terrific, and you know, honestly, he is like a fine wine. every day goes by, i get to appreciate his genius more and more. we are going to need our more engaged be and more vigilant than ever before, to help us accomplish the reforms and overcome decades of stalemate and gridlock. we are going to get it done, folks....

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think the country is right there with you. let's turntopaulryan, whohas not always been, with, as of a week ago, with the president. where is paul ryan now? where is he in his partnership with the president of the united states, who is the senior partner by any definition? >> well, i would put it this way, lou. we know who the head of our party is. we know the reason we have unified republican government, for the first time in a very long time and that's donald j. trump, our new president. out of respect for that at turnout that mr. trump got, paul ryan and other leadership are looking to his leadership and vice-president pence is playing a key role in setting the agenda, the pace of the agenda and setting the priority, as paul ryan indicated to us today in our conference meeting, they are all on the same page. our 100, 200-day agenda we are going to be talking about, the president will be with us on thursday in philadelphia at our retreat. all the republican senators and members of congress will be there. we are united and president trump is calling the shots. we are falling in l

think the country is right there with you. let's turn to paul ryan, who has not always been, with, as of a week ago, with the president. where is paul ryan now? where is he in his partnership with the president of the united states, who is the senior partner by any definition? >> well, i would put it this way, lou. we know who the head of our party is. we know the reason we have unified republican government, for the first time in a very long time and that's donald j. trump, our new...

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gotopaulryanagain.meanwhile presidential candidate jill stein and wisconsin chapter of green party will hold a rally for how the state votes. should only use paper ballots counted by hand or scanners. that's going to do it for me. i'm betty nguyen. now, "morning joe." >> i just think if you have a fight, a battle, you've got to do it on twitter. >> you have to respect your boss at some point. >> yeah, exactly. >> there's an element of that. >> you've got to know who the man is. you've got to know who the top dog is. you've got to know who the guy that everybody needs to bow down and salute. that's what the twitter war was about yesterday. people not knowing their place, not knowing who to bow down to. >> didn't work out. >> worked out for the big dog. that's all i've got to say. can you believe that? >> i was surprised. >> especially given the timing. >> wow, unbelievable. >> you know, some people just aren't very smart. that's all i've got to say. i wasn't going to talk about it but we've got to talk about it. it's important. >> it is important. >> it's going to be increasin

go to paul ryan again. meanwhile presidential candidate jill stein and wisconsin chapter of green party will hold a rally for how the state votes. should only use paper ballots counted by hand or scanners. that's going to do it for me. i'm betty nguyen. now, "morning joe." >> i just think if you have a fight, a battle, you've got to do it on twitter. >> you have to respect your boss at some point. >> yeah, exactly. >> there's an element of that. >>...

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report". republicans have started dismantling obamacare and bow it will happen thisyear.paulryanassuringamericans it will be a smooth transition and not to listen to the scare tactics from the left. >> trying to make americans think someday this february or someday this march you will wake up and not have health insurance plan. that is not happening. that is not true. what we are doing is being methodical, deliberative and doing this the right way. ashley: how will it play out? that is the question. let's go to blake berman. >> so many questions surrounding obamacare, phase in, phaseout, the timeline of all that. as far as the phaseouts go that is the repeal, when will parts of it end. the phase-in, and the republican plan coming in, house speaker paul ryan would not commit to any such timeline whatsoever. he did say the legislation that would allow for all that to happen would be a 2017 item. >> the question is how long will it take markets to put in place and adjust. that question we don't know the answer to but legislating obamacare in position. >> president-elect trump was tweeting

report". republicans have started dismantling obamacare and bow it will happen this year. paul ryan assuring americans it will be a smooth transition and not to listen to the scare tactics from the left. >> trying to make americans think someday this february or someday this march you will wake up and not have health insurance plan. that is not happening. that is not true. what we are doing is being methodical, deliberative and doing this the right way. ashley: how will it play out?...

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of thehousepaulryan. >>thankyou.>>paulryanre-electedhouse speaker. what these lawmakers decide will have consequences. republicans' first order of business before repealing obamacare or anything else in the agenda before today's opening gavel sounded was a secret vote to essentially cripple the nonpartisan office set up for one reason -- keeping lawmakers from either party honest. then a massive outcry, then a tweet from donald trump. now the plan is toast and mr. trump is poised to take the credit. manu raju joins us from the capitol. how did we get from a to b here and how much did donald trump's tweet affect the outcome? >> you know, anderson, this was not part of the plan, the proposal to gut this ethics watchdog, not part of the plan that the house republican leadership and the trump transition team set out on ever since election day. they had been trying to lay out a number of things they want to do ranging from repealing obamacare to reforming the tax code, going after obama regulations. going after this ethics agency only came up in a closed door monday night mee

of the house paul ryan. >> thank you. >> paul ryan re-elected house speaker. what these lawmakers decide will have consequences. republicans' first order of business before repealing obamacare or anything else in the agenda before today's opening gavel sounded was a secret vote to essentially cripple the nonpartisan office set up for one reason -- keeping lawmakers from either party honest. then a massive outcry, then a tweet from donald trump. now the plan is toast and mr. trump...